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j16sdiztoday at 1:30 AM1 replyview on HN

If your application need that level of control, you probably want to use UDP and have something like QUIC over it.

BTW, Hardware based TCP offloads engine exists... Don't think they are widely used nowadays though


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nlytoday at 1:57 AM

Hardware TCP offloads usually deal with the happy fast path - no gaps or out of order inbound packets - and fallback to software when shit gets messy.

Widely used in low latency fields like trading